Sailors don't make the best lovers - Its Nonsense

5:16 AM Sat 16 May 2009 GMT
In recent days, boaters around the world over have been proudly boasting of news from the Onzin Institute in Amsterdam. Now the report has been overturned.

The Dutch Free Press reported in early April 'A study conducted by the Onzin Institute in the Netherlands was published on Monday. Findings from the four year study, 'Environmental Effects on the Virility Index,' include indications that those who participate in outdoor sports such as sailing have increased sex drives.

One sailing site, YachtPals.com seemed to know more than anyone else. It had ran a major story, right at the beginning of April, complete with photos, from author. Eerste Grasmaand

The turgid details from the story ran in California's boating newspaper, the Log, Sailing Scuttlebutt issue 2842 and in Yachting Monthly.

Here is Yachting Monthly's version

Sailors have a higher sex drive than other mortals, according to a new study by boffins in raunchy Amsterdam. The Onzin Institute's four-year study, Environmental Effects on the Virility Index, astounded even the program's Director, Dr. Hijgen Krachtig, who said, 'As a scientist, one should always be surprised when common knowledge turns out to be true,' reports Yachtpals.com

The study is part of a larger project which is attempting to measure human sexual drive, ability and potency on a standardized scale, called the Virility Index.

The study itself took a group of 2,000 Dutch couples and measured the subject's reaction to several stimuli using a number of sensors, including heat-sensing video cameras, a blood-enzyme monitor, multiple skin and scalp sensors, and something called a 'self-calibrating turgidity anchor'. The second part of the study measured the couples during actual lovemaking, and then the results of both experiments were collected and cross-referenced with the subject's personal data to provide the results for both individuals, and couples.

People who took part in outdoor leisure activities had far higher scores on the index than those who did not, and those who listed 'boating/sailing' among their top three activities scored, on average, nearly double that of any other group. The same thing with occupation: Those whose job was listed as 'maritime' scored much higher than those who worked on land.

'We think that it may have something to do with the inner ear, or it may be due to the strengthening of core muscles as the body compensates for the rocking motion found at sea' said Dr. Krachtig. 'Although one of my colleagues has suggested that maybe sailors are just better used to making love in uncomfortable environments.'

However a sailor from the Netherlands explained that the Onzin Institute can't be found in Amsterdam and that word 'Onzin' means nonsense and the name of the institute's director, Dr. Hijgen Krachtig, would translate to as Dr Panting Strongly or perhaps better as 'Dr. Heavy Breather.'

Check that on Babelfish, then look at the original report and note the release date April 1st. - That is what Eerste Grasmaand means in Dutch.

Well done YachtPals